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• NEW Scientists look for ways to use yellow cedars Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA (Posted 1-9-07) Nootkatin and carvacrol were found to kill spores of Phytophthora ramorum, the mold that causes sudden oak death, a disease that has ravaged forests in ...
• Burns prescribed in state park Eureka,CA,USA posted 10-13-06 ... The Jay Smith Road prescribed burn will test the effectiveness of using prescribed fire to control the spread of Phytophthora ramorum,
• Phytophthora ramorum detected in FL. 2006
• Phytophthora ramorum detected in Indiana . 8-06
• Lilacs in Maine with Phytophthora ramorum. 8-12-06
• Oak trees continue to be at risk of deadly disease Simi Valley Acorn - CA,USA Found in 13 California counties from Monterey to Humboldt and in a small portion of southwest Oregon, the disease is caused by the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum
   
  Hunt continues for tree diseases Farming UK - Linthwaite,Huddersfield,UK These are Phytophthora ramorum, which is the causal agent of a condition known as Sudden Oak Death in the USA, and Phytophthora kernoviae.
   
  Sudden Oak Death introduced to US, study finds UC Berkeley - Berkeley,CA,USA Posted 4-21-06 ... May issue of the journal Molecular Ecology and published online on Thursday, April 13, has potentially shed light on how Phytophthora ramorum - the pathogen ...
   
  County destroys plants infected with pathogen TheReporter.com - Vacaville, CA,USA Posted 4-13-06 ... According to a press release issued Tuesday, the California Department of Food and Agriculture confirmed the finding of "Phytophthora ramorum" in March.
  Fungus forces destruction of hundreds of camellias  Tallahassee Democrat Posted 3-21-06 . ..but David Marshall, of the Leon County extension office of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agriculture Science, said it can be hard to track where the plants ...
  Dead fencing helping National Park return to former glory Irish Examiner - Cork,Ireland Posted 12-20-05 ... put up around the park asking people not to remove any vegetation so as to prevent a further spread of the disease, scientifically known as phytophthora ramorum ...
  Sudden Oak Death Disease Found In South Carolina  Posted 9-1-05 Steve Jeffers with Clemson University said sudden oak death was found on a camellia from an undisclosed Lowcountry nursery. Southern ...
• Sudden Oak Death fungus found in Norcross laurel shipment in GA
• Riverside County broadens attack on oak disease North County Times - Escondido, CA,USA Posted 8-29-05 ... county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously this week to beef up a program launched in March 2004 with the goal of preventing sudden oak death disease from ...
  Caring for Oaks Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA Posted 8-29-05 ... But when it comes to the threat of sudden oak death, camellias, azaleas, viburnum, pieris and mountain laurel all number among the "dirty five" -- host plants ...
  10 new hosts added to the list by APHIS-PPQ Posted 8-23-05
  Home & Garden: Consult licensed arborist for ailing oaks Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posted 7-29-05 As the continuing spread of Sudden Oak Death has been publicized recently, many of us no longer take the state of our trees for granted.
  China's Rust Lessons: Part 1 High Plains Journal - Dodge City,KS,USA Posted 7-18-05 B EIJING (DTN) -- While many people cite Brazil's experience with Asian soybean rust as a point of reference, China may be a more relevant model for the US ...
  Plant Disease Importation Could Spell Sudden Death for Nursery ... AgNews - TX,USA Posted 7-18-05 ... For East Texas nursery operators and tree farmers, the equivalent of soybean rust could be sudden oak death. In five years, the ...
   
  Nearly all nurseries inspected for sudden oak death OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA Posted 7-14-05 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- After a scare for the $778 million Oregon nursery industry, a statewide inspection is nearly complete for sudden oak death fungus. ...
  Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher receives USDA ... I-Newswire.com (press release) - USA Posted 7-14-05 ... P. ramorum, more commonly known as sudden oak death, is a serious fungus-like pathogen that has attacked and killed tens of thousands of oak trees in ...
  US House of Representatives approves 2006 agricultural spending ...  NapaNet Daily News - Napa,CA,USA Posted 6-13-05 ... The bill allocates $6 million to research and control Sudden Oak Death, which is present in at least 12 California counties including the west side of Napa ...
  Scientists establishing testing for `sudden oak death' Birmingham News - Birmingham,AL,USA Posted 5-24-05 ... US Department of Agriculture and state and national forestry officials are concerned that the damaging disease, ramorum blight or sudden oak death, may have
  Late rains may cultivate oak death Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA  Posted 5-24-05 Scientists studying sudden oak death are watching the late spring rains with trepidation - since new research indicates that production of the spores that ...
  Georgia AG Finds SOD Fungus in Sample from Alpharetta Nursery Duluth Weekly - Duluth,GA,USA Posted 5-24-05 ATLANTA (May 20) -- Georgia Department of Agriculture inspectors have found the fungus that causes Sudden Oak Death in a camellia shipment to a retail nursery
  Sudden Oak Death fungus found in Norcross laurel shipment Access North Georgia - Gainesville,GA,USA Posted 5-16-05 The fungus that causes Sudden Oak Death has been found in a small shipment of mountain laurel for a wholesale nursery in Norcross, Ga., state agriculture
   
  GFC issues statewide alert for killer oak fungus Duluth Weekly - Duluth,GA,USA Posted 5-9-05 MACON, GA (May 5) - The Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC) has issued a statewide alert for a potential epidemic of Sudden Oak Death (SOD) disease and urges ...
   
  Swift action needed to avert spread of oak disease Baltimore Sun - USA Posted 4-4-05 There is no cure or preventative for Sudden Oak Death. ... First, call us for a test. For more information, click on Sudden Oak Death on our Web site home page.
  AG REPORT: Two Nurseries Test Positive for Sudden Oak Death Out of ... Salem-News.Com - OR,USA Posted 3-31-05 ... Department of Agriculture has inspected, sampled, and certified 901 nurseries as free of Phytophthora ramorum, the fungus that causes sudden oak death (SOD).
  Sudden Oak Death invades area with cool, moist conditions The Eureka Reporter - Eureka,CA,USA Posted 3-21-05 Stage agencies and area scientists are working to get the word out to people to be cautious when traveling into areas infected with Sudden Oak Death during wet ...
  New trace-forwards in 2005. Find the APHIS PPQ press release at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/ispm/sod/updates/update022205.pdf
  Posted 2-28-05
  Sudden Oak Death LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA  Posted 2-11-05  Contrary to what the name suggests, sudden oak death afflicts many types of trees and shrubs, including azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons. ...
  Plant Doctors Target Sudden Oak Death  Agricultural Research - Beltsville,MD Posted 2-2-05  ... oaks and woody backyard plants like azaleas and camellias can both fall victim to a microbe that's perhaps best known for causing Sudden Oak Death disease in ...
  Inspectors make sure you don't get more than you bargained for
  Sacramento Bee - CA,USA  Posted 1-31-05
  ... fire ants, scale and more. Recently, the pathogen that causes sudden oak death has been added to the list. They also make sure all ...
   
  Third strain may be offspring of US, European types or link to  
  San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA Posted 1-24-05
  A previously unknown strain of the tree-killing disease known as sudden oak death has been found in a nursery in Washington state, a possible mutant child of ...
• Sudden oak death ups work for nursery inspectors
  Bend.com - Bend,OR,USA  (Posted 1-20-05)
  ... After sudden oak death was detected in a handful of Oregon nurseries the past couple of years, ODA and the nursery industry last summer developed a mandatory ...

• Background on Sudden Oak Death: IFAS EDIS Fact Sheet (3/26/04) here or PDF
• Images of the disease in California, taken July 2004 here
• Quick ID card here (PDF file)
• SOD poster here (PPT file you can modify as needed)
• Master Gardener diagnostic guide PDF here
• IPM Center Sudden Oak Death page at http://ncipm.org/sod/
• The USDA/APHIS Sudden Oak Death Web site http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/issues/sod/sod.html
• Link to the 2003 SOD Pest Alert PDF here.
• California Oak Mortality Task Force web site at http://www.suddenoakdeath.org
• Invasive Species Summary page at http://www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/Phytophthora_ramorum.htm
• EH&S Fact Sheet is at http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/garbelotto/english/factsheet
• Florida SOD page
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• Questionnaire/Key for determining whether to send in a sample here (PDF).
• Sample submission checklist here
• The USDA/APHIS Sudden Oak Death Web site http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/issues/sod/sod.html
• NPDN Diagnostic SOP or PDF
  To proceed with testing symptomatic material, please follow the sampling and diagnostic protocols in the nursery survey plan. Preliminary confirmations should be sent on to Beltsville with a 391 for final determination (make sure to double-bag and pack on ice).  The nursery survey protocol is at: http://www.ceris.purdue.edu/napis/pests/sod/natplan/plan0403/index.html
• The isolation protocol is here.
• Survey protocol here (4/20/04)
• CA Nursery guide (print, fold, and staple) PDF here
• California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Sudden Oak Death (SOD) Surveys in California http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pe/sod_survey/
• Timeline of events is at http://spdn.ifas.ufl.edu/Pest_alert.html